Your guide to the Evergreen State Fair

Thursday marks the start of 12 jam-packed days of fun at the 105th Evergreen State Fair in Monroe. Here’s all the information you need to plan your trip to the fair, plus a sampling of each day’s events to help you find your favorites.

General admission ticket prices:

• Adults, 16-61, $10

• Senior citizens, 62-89, $7

• 90 and older, free

• Youth, 6-15, $7

• Kids younger than 5, free

Grandstand, carnival, rodeo and speedway tickets are sold separately at the box office; grandstand and speedway tickets include fair admission.

How to get there: The Evergreen State Fairgrounds are at 14405 179th Ave. SE in Monroe, 14 miles east of Everett on U.S. 2 and about 30 miles northeast of Seattle via I-405 and Highway 522. Community Transit Routes 270 and 275 will serve the fair every 30 to 90 minutes Monday through Saturday. There is no service on Sundays or Labor Day. For exact times, go to www.communitytransit.org. Park free at Everett Station, 3201 Smith Ave., and at the Snohomish, Sultan and Gold Bar park &ride lots.

• Western Heritage Interactive Museum, all day, south of east entrance.

• Snoqualmie Tribe display and largest story pole display, all day, Frontierland.

• Lumberjack shows, noon, 4 and 7 p.m., Frontierland.

• See drivers from all over the country competing at 6 p.m. Figure 8 and more at the Evergreen Speedway.

Sunday, Aug. 25

Fiesta Sunday

• The Courtyard Stage is the place to be on Fiesta Sunday. Performances by New Age Flamenco, Bailadores de Bronce folkloric dancers, Mariachi Fiesta Mexicana band and dancers, Manigua Latin fusion band and Aztec Indian Dancers.